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Originally Posted by nekokami
That was how I felt when I read the scene too, and why I posted it. I missed someone posing a "joke" about drowning a cat, or I wouldn't have posted this. 
The little details of this scene matter to me. Death stroking the kittens as they're dying, and then (after the end of what I quoted) tucking their souls into his robe, rather than just letting them wander off as he generally does with humans.
Not knowing what pshrynk was alluding to, this was the best way I could think of to try to express a kinship of feeling with his frustration. "YOU DON'T SEE THE BEST SIDE OF PEOPLE IN THIS JOB." I felt like what Death meant was that he knew there was a better side of people than what he was looking at just then. And in a way, by saying that, he was reminding himself of that better side, though not present in the scene.
As I suspect you know, I don't find the idea of drowning kittens at all funny. |
Me either, and I told the person who posted the joke that I didn't find it the least bit funny, in fact, I was now quite depressed. I haven't been back to that thread.
I dated (for a very very short time), a person who thought it was extremely funny to joke about throwing my cats to his dog (you know .... "cats, the other white meat" that sort of crap). I kept telling him that, because one of my cats came to me after being thrown to a fighting dog (and having its back and neck broken), I thought that he would be better served to keep that sort of humor to himself. He didn't .... totally clueless .... and I dropped him.
That sort of "humor" may be funny if you are talking about drowning lawyers - I should know, being one, it doesn't bother me. However, jokes about killing helpless animals? Not funny.